Life above all episode 34&35

LIFE, ABOVE ALL

Episode 34

IN MR. PHIRI'S OFFICE

He was at his desk typing when he felt a sharp and unexpected pain in his stomach he tried to ignore it at first but the pain hit him harder a minute later, he jolted & twitched in his seat a little.
‘Where is this coming from?’ he asked no one in particular as he poured himself a glass of water.
As fast as it had started it went away and he sighed in relief.
He started typing again while humming he couldn’t wait to finish working on the report so he could finally go home and rest, he was exhausted, the past few days had been hectic.
A few minutes passed before he felt the pain again, he clutched his stomach & tried to stand up. As soon as he stood up, he was a hit by a wake of nausea and his mouth began to fill with warm saliva. He swallowed it down.
It was at that moment that his legs felt jelly and his knees gave out under the weight of his body. As the pain became intense, he curled into a ball and turned onto his side shaking and trembling.
Moments later, a knock sounded at the door.
Taking a deep breath he said, ‘come in and his secretary Emily walked into the office, she almost dropped the papers in her hands when she saw him curled up on the floor.
‘Mr. Phiri? What is it?’ She knelt next to him. ‘Are you okay?’ she desperately asked
He almost couldn’t speak from the pain but somehow he sputtered a sentence.
‘I am in so much pain, please help me,’ he said
‘Can you try and stand,’ she said
He tried to stand but fell into her holding his stomach, the pain was too rich for him he couldn’t handle it.
‘I will be back,’ she said before she rushed out of the room and went to call for help.
He winced in pain clutching his stomach and squeezing his eyes shut tight.
All of a sudden he felt this change within him. Opening his eyes he felt a strange dark presence then the hairs on his body stood up and Goosebumps formed all over his skin.
All the air whooshed out of her as she felt another stabbing pain penetrate through his stomach. He had no idea what was causing the pain, it felt as if someone was stabbing him in his abdomen.
He cried out involuntarily at the pain then his vision became blurry and he drifted off into a deep slumber.
‘Mr. Phiri!’ they rushed into his office a few minutes later. They shook him but got no response.
‘What did you say happened to him?’
‘I just walked into his office and found him on the floor, he said he was experiencing pain in his tummy,’ Emily said
‘We need to rush him to the hospital,’ his colleague said
‘You are right.’
They carried him and out of his office to the car and drove him to the hospital.
Not thirty minutes later they arrived at the hospital there he was immediately taken to a private room. The nurses and the doctors flew around him
Seconds seemed to turn into minutes and minutes to hours yet they waited for the doctor.
‘Did you call his wife?’ Emily asked
‘Her line isn’t going through he mentioned she has traveled to the village.’
‘I will have to drive to his house when we leave this place,’ he said
‘Okay.’
Finally the doctor walked out and asked to see them in his office.
‘Doctor, what is wrong with him?’
‘Nothing,’ the doctor responded
‘What do you mean nothing? Is he awake?’
‘No, he isn’t awake but we did the necessary tests and nothing seems to be wrong with him.’
‘I don’t understand.’
‘We don’t understand too, he seems to be perfectly fine but we shall keep him here on observation and try to do more tests tomorrow.’
‘Okay.’
‘Are you his wife?’ the doctor asked Emily
‘No.’
‘Okay, we need someone to fill in some paper work and make payments.’
‘I will do that though I am yet to inform his family members.’
‘Okay.’
They stood up, ‘Thank you doctor.’
‘You are welcome,’ they walked out of the doctor’s office thinking about what the doctor had said.
***
Ganizani was sitting on the couch next to his grandmother and Thoko was sitting on her laps, their grandmother had just arrived from the farm.
‘So this woman has turned your father against you?’ Granny asked
‘Yes,’ Ganizani said
‘They will meet me here, they must tell me what they did to my grandchild,’ she said angrily
‘Auntie Stella is not here at the moment, she travelled.’
‘Well she will come back and when she does all hell shall break loose. And who is that girl in the kitchen?’ she asked
There was a knock at the door before Ganizani could respond to his grandmother, he excused himself and went to open the door. At the door step stood his father’s friend.
‘Uncle Mark,’ he said
‘Hey kiddo,’ he smiled
‘How are you?’
‘I am fine.’
‘Who is home besides you?’
‘My Grandmother.’
‘Even better.’
‘Please come in,’ he opened the door wider and stepped aside to let him enter.
‘Good evening ma,’ Mark greeted Ganizani’s grandmother
‘Hello my child. How are you?’
‘Not so fine.’
‘Is everything the matter?’
‘It’s your son,’ Mark said
‘What about my son?’
‘He fell ill at work.’
She looked at him intently waiting to hear the worst.
‘How is dad?’ Thoko asked
‘Yes, how is my son?’
‘We took him to the hospital but the doctors said there is nothing wrong with him though he hasn’t woken up.’
‘My enemies have succeeded,’ she exclaimed
‘It shall be well,’ Mark said
‘Take me to him,’ she said
‘Okay.’
She stood up, ‘Don’t you kids want to see your father?’ she asked
‘No,’ Thoko shook her head
‘You will find us Granny.’
‘Okay.’
*****

ABOUT TIYA

She was huddled into small quivering ball, she was hungry and feeling very weak, she stared at the room again and this time around it was empty, the girl who had been occupying it was no longer there.
She wanted to leave this place, she wanted her siblings she missed them so much she knew they would be dead worried about her now.
The door to the room finally opened later that day and Ivy walked in with a glass in her hands.
‘Ivy?’ her eyes widened in shock
‘What?’
‘What is going on?’ she weakly asked
‘You wouldn’t understand but I want you to drink this.’
‘What is that?’
‘Here,’ Ivy handed her the cup, she got the cup and saw blood in it.
‘Blood?’
‘Just drink.’
‘No,’ she shook her head.
Ivy laughed and spoke in a language that Tiya couldn’t understand.
‘You need to drink this or else hell will break loose.’
Tiya shook her head.
‘Fine.’
Getting down on her knees, Ivy’s eyes gazed upwards and started chanting in some strange language. Then all of a sudden, a strange force slapped her so hard she fell to the ground.
A mixture of fear and adrenaline ran through her, she couldn’t understand what had just happened, there was no one in the room besides her and Ivy so who could have slapped her?
Before she could process what was happening, she received another hot slap and another until her face became bruised and her lip was bleeding.
Then Ivy stopped chanting and stood up, ‘Are you ready to drink this now or should I call for help?’
She shook her head sat upright and got the glass from Ivy’s hand then she took a large gulp and handed the cup back to Ivy.
‘Get ready for what’s about to happen now?’ Ivy said.
Tiya didn’t understand what had just happened and when looked at Ivy, she saw flames of fire blazing in her eyes.
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Episode 35

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against spiritual wickedness in high places,” Ephesians 6:12

Wednesday
02:00

Ivy was standing naked in the middle of the room, she was silent. Her head was thrown back, her throat showing and her face turned heavenwards as though she was praying.
A few minutes later, the room was filled with lighting & something touched Tiya’s hands before she vanished.
The next place she saw herself was a big hall with a large group of people sitting on their knees in a line.
In that room, Tiya saw familiar faces; her step mother, one of her teachers from school, an elder from church, Ivy and her father.
What in the blood hell just happened? She thought to herself.
She opened her mouth as if to speak but her voice came out low, barely audible and raspy. She cleared her throat and tried to speak again, ‘Where am i?’ she asked her voice was still very low.

No one responded, they all kept staring at her devilishly.
A few minutes passed before an old man with the longest beard she had ever seen appeared into the room and light flashed around the hall.
‘Great one, oh great leader of the Black Arms family, may you live long,’ they chanted.
He clapped his hands continuously for a few minutes before he strode towards Tiyamike.
‘Great one?’ Ivy got down on her knees, ‘I present to you Tiyamike, our virgin sacrifice.’

The crowd cheered.
The old man walked towards Tiya and stood in front of her then he stared at her intently, his gaze was dark and penetrating, she felt exposed. He could see through her fear.

“Sacarkarcidita!’ he hissed in a language that Tiya couldn’t understand.
‘We can start,’ he said
Ivy’s father grabbed a small bottle from the table and walked towards Tiya then he forcefully opened her mouth and poured the potion that was in the bottle into her mouth.
‘You must swallow,’ he said in a serious tone.
Tiya could feel her heart weighing down in the pit of her stomach as Ivy’s father rubbed her throat until she swallowed the potion.

‘Brothers and sisters of the Black Arms Family, we are here for our 25th Virgin Sacrifice,’ Mr. Bwalya said.
Throwing their arms in the air, everyone made a few incarnations and they started dancing.
Ivy’s father grabbed a cup from the table and took a large sip from it before he stripped out of his robe and tossed it on the floor.
And he got on top of Tiya. Tiya was frightened, the pit of her stomach turned ice cold from panic. Somehow she sensed what he was about to do and she wasn’t ready, atleast not yet.

Then he forced himself into her and a sharp pain shot up at the entrance of her womanhood, it was so intense and worse than anything she had ever experienced.

She screamed and screamed but to no avail.
The more she screamed, the louder the chanting and ululating got so she decided to shut up and accept her fate.

She was numb, her mind had disconnected from what was happening, she wanted just wanted him to finish and get it over and done with.
He pushed inside of her harder and harder before he finally exploded into her.

‘There is no turning back from this point, turning back means death,’ Ivy said
They all cheered then someone walked over to her and wiped her blood with a white cloth. The cloth went round the room, each one sniffed it and passed it on to the next and finally it was placed in a small black pot which was on the table.
She was lying on the floor and looking up at the ceiling as she fought through the tears which were pouring from her eyes when a snake crawled on top of her.
She began to shake her head and screaming no but they all ignored her pleas, the snake gilded on her private parts and began to harshly suck on her.
As all this was going on, she began feeling extremely weak it was as if the snake was draining all of her energy, eventually pain flooded through her pushing her to the edge of her unconsciousness.

When she opened her eyes, she was back in the room where she had first being held captive but this time around she was sitting on the stool holding a pot in her hands, she couldn’t move any part of her body no matter how much she tried, it was as if she had been glued to that stool.
She opened her mouth to speak but no sound came out. Whatever she wanted to say remained frozen in her throat.
Her heart was slamming hard against her chest, she needed a miracle to get out of this, whatever they had done to her was not human she could feel some strange forces controlling her body.

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ABOUT KEN

He woke up chained to a hospital bed, Knew he was in bad place ever since he tried to have sex with Tiya but never in his life had he expected to end up in a mental hospital.
The past few days had been rough on him, he couldn’t stop seeing strange things it felt like someone was calling him but when he looked around there was no one.
The other day he had seen a snake crawling all over his body but when he screamed and the doctor rushed into the room they claimed they couldn’t see it.
They had to sedate him to keep him calm.

A knock on the door made his heart beat faster than usual but he calmed down when he saw the nurse walk into the room.
‘Hey Ken!’ he said smilingly
‘Hey.’
‘I am here to give you your medicine,’ he said
Ken sighed -he hated the taste of the medicine, this medicine also made him drowsy. He didn’t know if the medicine was helping him to get better or if it was making him worse.

The nurse handed her some pills and a glass of water to swallow them down.
He quickly took the medicine without protesting and handed the glass back to the nurse.
‘How are you feeling?’ the nurse asked
‘Okay,’ he shrugged
‘Any strange dreams last night?’
‘Will you even believe me if I told you about them?’
‘You can always trust me.’
‘I will have to pass on that one.’
‘Why?’
‘You all think I am crazy.’
‘We don’t think you are crazy we just want to help you.’
‘Why?’
‘Because you are sick.’
‘I am not sick,’ she angrily screamed
‘Okay.’
‘Please leave me alone.’
‘Okay,’ he stood up.
‘I will see you later,’ he said before closing the door behind him.
He lay back on his bed and closed his eyes, just as he was about to doze off, a loud laughter erupted from the room and he snapped his eyes open. He looked around the room but saw no one.
‘It’s just a figment of my imagination,’ he said to himself.
He closed his eyes again and opened them but what he saw next scared him to the core.
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To be continued